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Espionage is typically conducted in secret. Snowden publicly released the documents and publicly announced his role as the leaker.
by betterunix 13y ago
Espionage is typically conducted in secret. Snowden publicly released the documents and publicly announced his role as the leaker.
- apalmer 13y agoI mean i don't know if he is a very naive dude who came up with his own (bad) way of trying to work his way into the chinese good graces... or if he is a very slick operative and this whole thing is part of a propaganda operation as he defects to China. All I can say is he stole all kinds of classified documents, revealed some to cause an uproar in the US and paint himself as a hero, immediately flew to the one other super power in the worlds sphere of influence and started advertising he needs help and has a whole lot more documents that would be of keen interest to said super power
- tdirect 13y agoHow is he advertising such a thing? He specifically said he carefully chose documents that would be in the public interest and not documents that would be a threat to national security.
- polyfractal 13y agoOR he's just a whistleblower trying to do the right thing for the States.